stranglehold

[US]/'stræŋg(ə)lhəʊld/
[UK]/'stræŋɡlhold/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. tight control or suppression, as if by strangling; strict control.

Example Sentences

The new tariffs have put a stranglehold on trade.

in France, supermarkets have less of a stranglehold on food supplies.

The company has a stranglehold on the market.

The dictator's regime maintained a stranglehold on the country.

The powerful corporation has a stranglehold on the industry.

The drug cartel has a stranglehold on the region.

The oppressive government has a stranglehold on its citizens.

The mafia has a stranglehold on the neighborhood.

The landlord has a stranglehold on the tenants.

The team has a stranglehold on the championship title.

The political party has a stranglehold on the government.

The wealthy elite have a stranglehold on the economy.

Real-world Examples

Supposedly has a stranglehold on the trade.

Source: Sherlock Holmes: The Basic Deduction Method Season 2

He laughed quietly, and gently unloosened my stranglehold on his neck.

Source: Twilight: Eclipse

But Apple and Google have this stranglehold, is the term he uses, on the mobile experience.

Source: Financial Times

I stiffly unlocked my stranglehold on his body and slipped to the ground, landing on my backside.

Source: Twilight: Eclipse

Ford is determined to get around ALAM'S stranglehold on the auto industry.

Source: Legend of American Business Tycoons

Want me to show you some strangleholds?

Source: First Arrival (Season 2)

Eric Garner was killed by the policeman's stranglehold, a practice banned by the New York police department. Nick Bryant reports from New York.

Source: BBC Listening December 2014 Collection

While the members of the Senate's aristocratic faction, or optimates, seethed, the minions of the so-called First Triumvirate maintained their stranglehold on Roman politics.

Source: The rise and fall of superpowers.

The head of Epic Games, which is fighting Apple's and Google's stranglehold on the market, described the bill as a milestone in personal computing.

Source: The Economist (Summary)

My parents grew up in the Jim Crow South. They knew how scary socalled economic anxiety can get when one group's stranglehold on privilege ends.

Source: Time

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